Freebsd Fortunes 4

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,
intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption
from the cares of office.

In Oz, never say "krizzle kroo" to a Woozy.

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced
a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
                -- John Diefenbaker

In practice, failures in system development, like unemployment in Russia,
happens a lot despite official propaganda to the contrary.
                -- Paul Licker

In real love you want the other person's good.  In romantic love you
want the other person.
                -- Margaret Anderson

In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.
                -- Will Durst

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really
good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change
their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.  They really
do it.  It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
human and change is sometimes painful.  But it happens every day.  I cannot
recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
                -- Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address

In short, N is Richardian if, and only if, N is not Richardian.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.
                -- Ann Frank